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Foregone Conclusions: Paul Kagame Retains Power

Rwanda has become a curiosity as an African state . The mere mention of its name tugs the memory: colonial tragedy, ethnic violence,...

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Puppet Realisations: Biden Stands Aside

Having been endorsed as the only viable candidate to battle Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Joe Biden was subsequently browbeaten...

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Conventional wisdom: The ICJ ruling on Israeli settlements

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has again deliberated over the thorn-bloodied subject of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Its latest advisory...

22.07.2024 7

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Conventional Wisdom: The ICJ Ruling on Israeli Settlements

The International Court of Justice has again deliberated over the thorn-bloodied subject of Israeli-Palestinian relations . Its latest ...

22.07.2024 10

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NATO: 75 and Still Threatening

Bring out the bon bons, the bubbles, and the praise filled memoranda for that old alliance . At the three-quarter century mark...

20.07.2024 10

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Dutton’s Quixotic Proposal: Nuclear Lunacy Down Under

Politics and facts are not necessarily good dinner companions. Both often stray from the same table, taking up with other, more suitable...

18.07.2024 30

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Tony Blair: Profiteer and Emissary of Artificial Intelligence

His entire set of teeth, and gums, must be gold plated by now. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided to let the world, and more...

15.07.2024 10

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The Convulsed Republic: The Shooting of Donald Trump

As a nation, the United States, as if we did not already know, is convulsed. Paranoid and divided, giddy with conspiracy and deranged by a...

14.07.2024 10

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Terminating Partnerships: The UK Ends the Rwanda Solution

The dishonour board is long. Advisors from Australia, account chasing electoral strategists, former Australian cabinet ministers happy to ...

11.07.2024 10

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Owing truth to the dead: Israel’s desecration of war graves

When does it stop? Australia’s close ties with Israel continue to hold despite the incessant slaughter taking place in the Gaza strip, with the...

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Trendy Appointments: Australia’s Special Antisemitism Envoy

Was there a ny need for this? Australia’s Albanese government, harried by the conservative opposition for going soft on pro-Palestinian...

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Does Australia need a special antisemitism envoy?

Australia now has its first antisemitism envoy, a title that can be misread for darkly comic effect. But is there any need for one? The Anthony...

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In Westminster at Last: The Threat of Nigel…

“This is the inflection point,” warned Nigel Farage last month as he assumed the reins of power at the incarnated Reform UK party ,...

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Massacre at the Ballot: The Punishing of the…

Few would have staked their political fortune, let alone any other sort of re ward , on a return of the British Conservatives on July 4. The...

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The US Supreme Court Outs the Imperial Presidency

The US Supreme Court has much to answer for. In the genius of republican government, it operates as overseer and balancer to the executive and...

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Assange returns to Australia to the resentment of hacks

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, is now back in Australia, having endured the cramped digs in London’s Ecuadorian embassy for seven years to the...

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Assange’s Return to Australia: The Resentment of the…

Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame is now back in the country of his birth, having endured conditions of captivity ranging from ...

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Victory for the Disposables: The Sentencing of the…

In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concept s . In its insidious, older form, one ...

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DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture

“There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA.” Chilean intelligence officer , remarks to a US military...

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Assange’s Release: Exposing the Craven Media Stable

The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought,...

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The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and…

One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of...

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The release of Julian Assange

It would be the political persecution of the 21 st Century. A publicly orchestrated campaign of mobbing, libelling and black balling by the most...

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The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and…

One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of...

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DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture

“There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA.” ( Chilean intelligence officer , remarks to a US military...

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Victory for the Disposables: The Sentencing of the…

In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concept s . In its insidious, older form, one ...

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Quibbling About Killing: Netanyahu’s Spat with Washington

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is unhappy. Not so much with the Palestinians, whom he sees as terroristic, dispensable and a threat to...

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Quixotic regulation: Australia’s eSafety commissioner capitulates

Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, on April 16, smacked X and Meta with legal notices to remove links to a video within 24 hours...

22.06.2024 10

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Quixotic Regulation: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Capitulates

It was given top billing, a near absurd show intended to rope in content on a global social media platform, thereby denying all outside Australia...

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The National Anti-Corruption Commission: a damp squib

In Australia, the demon of penal regulation clings in its stubbornness. Keeping government accountable and open to the suspicious eye of the public is...

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Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet

You could almost sense the smacking of lips, accompanied by the rubbing of hands. The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet ,...

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Ukraine, Continued Aid, and the Prevailing Logic of…

War always commands its own appeal. It has its own frazzled laurels, the calling of its own worn poets tenured in propaganda. In battle, the poets...

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Diamonds and Cold Dust: Slaughter at Nuseirat

The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself ...

13.06.2024 10

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The EU Elections: The March of the Right

The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the...

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Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning of Hindutva

Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their...

08.06.2024 10

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Tory Nightmares: The Return of Nigel Farage

Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage. Fewer have done so while failing to win office. In seven...

06.06.2024 30

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Inexplicable investments: Elbit Systems and Australia’s Future Fund

Australia’s modest $272.3 billion sovereign wealth fund is under the spotlight over where its funds are being deployed. A Freedom of Information...

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Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems and Australia’s Future Fund

Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged,...

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Inexplicable Investments: ElbiSystems and Australia’s Future Fund

Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged,...

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Ming Vase Politics: UK Labour and Purging the…

By any reckoning, this was the move of a fool. A fool, it should be said, motivated by spite larded with caution. Evidently playing safe, adopting...

04.06.2024 10

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The Stuffing of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike

It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral...

01.06.2024 30

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Soaking Sunak Calls the Sodding Election

It was a pitiful sight. Soaked and literally washed-out, the feeble thin British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made an announcement that caught many in...

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A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence in New Caledonia

France’s Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of...

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Australia’s anti-ICC lobby

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton believes Israel’s leaders have been hard done by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and suggests Australia cut...

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Australia’s Anti-ICC Lobby

Throwing caution to the wind, grasping the nettle, and every little smidgen of opportunity, Australia’s opposition leader, Peter Dutton, was...

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A Misplaced Purity: Democracies and Crimes Against International…

The application for arrest warrants by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan in the Israel-Hamas War gives us a chance...

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Assange given right to appeal extradition to US

The British High Court of Justice decided on May 20 to allow whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange leave to appeal his...

22.05.2024 40

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The Rages of Equivalence: The ICC Prosecutor, Israel…

The legal world was abuzz. The diplomatic channels of various countries raged and fizzed. It had been rumoured that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...

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A brutal punishment: The sentencing of David McBride

David McBride, the man who revealed that Australia’s special forces in Afghanistan had committed atrocities and faced a compromised chain of...

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The Assange Case: A Flicker of Hope in…

It was faint, but there was more than just a flicker of hope. In the tormented (and tormenting) journey the WikiLeaks founder and publisher, Julian...

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Promising the Impossible: Blinken’s Out of Tune Performance…

Things are looking dire for the Ukrainian war effort. Promises of victory are becoming even hollower than they were last summer, when US President...

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